Steph Curry’s 2015-16 season was one of the most impressive in basketball history and netted him a unanimous Most Valuable Player award, the first player to ever get every vote.
It wasn’t just the best season of any player that year; Bleacher Report wrote that Curry’s season was the best of any MVP season going back through 2000.
“He was primarily responsible for redefining the way offense could be played, and he blazed that new trail while leading his team to a win total never before seen.”
The fact that his season revolutionized the way basketball is played lifted it above the others Bleacher Report considered.
Of any other MVP on this list, the only one whose team changed the game was No. 11 on the list: Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash, whose fast-paced, 3-point-crazy “Seven Seconds or Less” was a precursor to the Warriors. Former Suns general manager Steve Kerr and Golden State took that to the next level.
But that’s not the only reason Curry was No. 1. His statistics were insane. His 402 3-pointers was about 41% more than his previous record of 286. As Time pointed out after the 2016 season, that’s like if Barry Bonds set the home run record at 73, and then hit 41% more the next year — which would be 103 home runs.
Bleacher Report: “His 66.9 true shooting percentage isn’t just the highest generated by anyone in this field; it’s the highest ever produced in a season involving at least 1,000 field-goal attempts.”
He had a net swing of 23.1 points, which was the most of any MVP over the last 20 years, according to Bleacher Report.
Curry became the seventh NBA player to have a 50/40/90 season, and the first of them to score more than 30 points per game in that same season.
Plus, the team success: The Warriors became the greatest regular-season team of all time with 73 wins.
“Even in a collection of seasons this remarkable, Curry’s stands apart.”
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